Renaissance engineers

Resumo

This book reproduces the lectures delivered during a course held at the National Distance University�s associated facility in Segovia and co-sponsored by the university and Fundación Juanelo Turriano. Renaissance engineers is the second volume of a collection launched in 2012 with Roman engineering as a platform for the publication of the lessons authored by reputed specialists on the occasion of these courses. The book analyses the decisive contribution made by Renais sance engineers to land use planning and modern knowledge. It reviews the oeuvre of renowned engineers associated with the Spanish monarchy during that pivotal period and describes how they acquired the high esteem in which they were held by the governing class: building fortifications,? channelling rivers, inventing devices and machines, writing treatises and describing the cities and territories visited in their travels.